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🛡️Defend the West Conference🛡️
WHEN: 1/13/2027
WHERE: Online
Over 300 people have registered so far.
Speakers include:
@DavidM_Friedman
@sapinker
@SRCHicks
@yaronbrook
@alananewhouse
@johanknorberg
@DeirdreMcClosk
@michaelshermer
@ToKTeacher
@jasoncrawford
Nadine Strossen
Save your spot (link below)
With enormous gratitude, Conjecture Institute is pleased to welcome our first Platinum Donor!
Their anonymous gift has already helped us bring on @mboudry as our first Senior Philosopher and taken us past halfway to our 2027 budget.
Our plans for 2027 below👇
What this gift helps make possible in 2027:
🎬 A new documentary
🌐 Two or three online conferences, starting with Defend the West on January 13
📚 At least 12 new course modules on constructor theory, civilization, and epistemology
🧑🔬 At least three new Fellows, including two physicists
📖 Bold Conjectures, Volume III, plus one to three books by our Fellows
🔬 Continued support for our Senior Scientists, Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral, and their research in constructor theory and testing quantum gravity
If you like what we're building at Conjecture Institute, we'd be honored if you considered setting up an automatic monthly donation: every.org/conjecture-institu…
If you want to learn more, email President Logan Chipkin at [email protected]
Love, trade, force.
These really are the only ways we can know, be known, move, and be moved by other people in modern society.
All of interaction summarised in three words.
I want to explore these systems in greater detail to reveal their individual logics, and, in the process, justify their applications on varying social scales.
~Conjecture Institute Fellow @tomhyde_
Poverty is not what needs to be explained - that was all of human history.
It's this unprecedented level of wealth starting in the 19th century that needs to be explained.
And it's not a zero sum game.
~CI Senior Philosopher @mboudry w/ @chellivia for @HumanProgress
"Studying the universal constructor and studying what is possible and impossible under the laws of physics is the same."
Conjecture Institute Senior Scientist Chiara Marletto with @TOEwithCurt on why studying this hypothetical machine takes us to the foundations of physics.
...the problem of ‘squaring a circle’—given a circle, how can one construct a square with the same area as the circle?—was first asked by the thinkers of ancient Greece, well-known for their study of geometry.
Mathematicians would continue to work on the problem for the next two thousand years within the framework of geometric theory without success.
The problem was finally solved in 1882, when German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann stepped outside of geometry and approached the problem from abstract algebra.
The puzzle of squaring a circle had its origins in geometry, but its solution had its origins in an altogether different mathematical field—and one that the Greek geometers had never even imagined.
AI could not have helped the ancient Greeks in solving this problem, trapped as they were in the prevailing mathematical paradigm.
No amount of automation could have discovered the solution within geometry, since the solution was not in that theory but in an altogether different theory whose discovery would require genuine creativity.
In short: if a problem requires either a new method or a new theory, then AI as it is currently constituted is hopeless to solve it—and no amount of increasing its efficiency or computational power can overcome this limitation.
~Conjecture Institute Fellow @PaulRRobichaud & President @ChipkinLogan 👇
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Welcoming @mboudry to the @ConjectureInst
I'm immensely proud to be the first Senior Philosopher at the Conjecture Institute! At @ConjectureInst, we're dedicated followers of Karl Popper and @DavidDeutschOxf, championing bold conjectures and ruthless refutations. They hired me in a heartbeat—but if I turn out to be wrong about something (or everything), they should kick me straight back out. As fallibilists, we learn from our mistakes! 😉
"Let our hypotheses die in our stead!"
Conjecture Institute:
1. Supports fundamental physics research.
2. Defends Western civilization.
3. Spreads humanity's deepest ideas, including Popper's theory of knowledge and its applications.
Read our Handbook to discover everything we stand for (link below)
Wat fijn voor @mboudry dat zijn rabiate zionisme zich eindelijk begint te vertalen in monetaire voordelen, een volgende stap in een veelbelovende carrière: hij wordt 'senior (kijk eens aan!) philosopher' aan het @ConjectureInst, een überzionistische club wetenschappers. Let wel: dat laatste gaan ze niet zo opschrijven (al geeft @alananewhouse's "Zionism for everyone" het wel een tikje weg), want dan zou het niet meer werken. Het wordt een oefening in hondenfluitjes blazen, liefst niet al te subtiel (de Untermenschen moeten het tenslotte wel snappen). 'Defend The West' (wink wink) en dat soort supremacistische ongein met licht genocidaal parfum.
Gestart en gesteund door onder meer @yudapearl (dé opperzionist), @DavidDeutschOxf (die zodanig heterodox en Popperiaans is dat hij mij hier al lang heeft geblokkeerd - so long for the "ruthless refutations"), @sapinker (van Epstein-fame), @ToKTeacher (van “The enemies of Israel are the enemies of reason and civilisation”), @DanielJHannan (van "We should all be thanking Israel"), @yaronbrook (van de gevleugelde woorden "it might be morally necessary for Israel to not only see Hamas, but the Palestinian population at large as an enemy"), enz.
Fijne vriendjes, en het brengt nog wat op ook. Veel plezier in je nieuwe club, Maarten! En moge je uit je fouten leren. 😉
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I'm immensely proud to be the first Senior Philosopher at the Conjecture Institute! At @ConjectureInst, we're dedicated followers of Karl Popper and @DavidDeutschOxf, championing bold conjectures and ruthless refutations. They hired me in a heartbeat—but if I turn out to be wrong about something (or everything), they should kick me straight back out. As fallibilists, we learn from our mistakes! 😉
"Let our hypotheses die in our stead!"
Conjecture Institute is thrilled to welcome our first Senior Philosopher: @mboudry!
Dr. Boudry is a philosopher of science and first holder of the Etienne Vermeersch Chair of Critical Thinking at Ghent University.
He has published over 50 academic papers and co-edited two volumes: Science Unlimited? and Philosophy of Pseudoscience.
He has also written six trade books in Dutch on science and philosophy.
Boudry's book, The Betrayal of Enlightenment, will be published by @PitchstoneBooks.
He’s also a @rootsofprogress fellow and a regular contributor to @Quillette, @JoinPersuasion, @ConversationUS, @Independent, and @HumanProgress.
Conjecture Institute retweeted
The “Defend the West” conference by @ConjectureInst and @ChipkinLogan, January 13th, 2027, is going to be outstanding. Some truly brilliant speakers: @johanknorberg, @sapinker, @DavidDeutschOxf, @michaelshermer, @nickgillespie, @yaronbrook and more. conjectureinstitute.org/even… 🗽
Privacy prevents you from conflating an idea with the person.
You have no choice but to judge an idea by its content alone, regardless of who's offering it.
~@tyler with @cameron & Conjecture Institute Fellow @maxdesalle
My first interview with @cameron and @tyler.
0:00 Intro
0:47 The 2012 thesis: digital gold
1:46 Bitcoin’s missing feature: privacy
2:28 The first internet-native money
3:15 Why they seeded Zcash in 2016
4:47 Money has always been private
5:31 The true separation of money and state
6:20 Privacy: where the state ends and you begin
7:59 AI and quantum as accelerants
9:11 Bullish AI means bullish Zcash
9:27 Bitcoin’s place in a Zcash world
10:53 Zcash in 5–10 years
11:47 AI cycles, not halving cycles
13:37 The biggest infrastructure build-out ever
14:08 Valuing Zcash as a percentage of Bitcoin
14:54 Zcash is encrypted Bitcoin
16:04 Gold is abundant in space
17:27 Why start Cypherpunk
19:05 The coming war on privacy
19:55 Flock cameras and mass surveillance
22:18 The encryption wars: Zcash is HTTPS
23:47 Wrench attacks and public blockchains
25:10 “I have nothing to hide”
27:11 Einstein at the patent office
29:14 Self-censorship in academia
29:48 Privacy forces you to engage with ideas
30:41 Outro
A bomb so sensitive that one photon sets it off. Can you detect it without blowing it up?
Conjecture Institute Fellow @maria__violaris explains the quantum bomb tester and how the multiverse makes sense of it.
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It's great to have @mboudry, a deeply thoughtful and insightful writer, as part of CI.
I recently attended a wonderful talk he gave about his book The Betrayal of the Enlightenment. It was refreshing to hear a philosopher defend progress so unequivocally.
Conjecture Institute is thrilled to welcome our first Senior Philosopher: @mboudry!
Dr. Boudry is a philosopher of science and first holder of the Etienne Vermeersch Chair of Critical Thinking at Ghent University.
He has published over 50 academic papers and co-edited two volumes: Science Unlimited? and Philosophy of Pseudoscience.
He has also written six trade books in Dutch on science and philosophy.
Boudry's book, The Betrayal of Enlightenment, will be published by @PitchstoneBooks.
He’s also a @rootsofprogress fellow and a regular contributor to @Quillette, @JoinPersuasion, @ConversationUS, @Independent, and @HumanProgress.
Israel is defending the Enlightenment.
Its enemies are not.
~Conjecture Institute Ambassador @ToKTeacher
The problem that I'm trying to solve, and one of the guiding missions of Wonderism, is what C.P. Snow called 'the two cultures'.
This is the divide between science and the humanities.
There's an opacity between the two cultures, and I think that it has spread across the entire society.
I conjecture that this is the reason for a lot of disillusionment in modern society.
~Conjecture Institute Fellow @tomhyde_
